Simeon Draper (January 19, 1806 - November 6, 1866) was a prominent merchant and politician in New York City. During the American Civil War, he was the federal government's agent for receiving captured cotton from the Confederate States of America and selling it to benefit the Union war effort.
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1804 Brookfield, Massachusetts
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6 November 1866 (aged 62) Whitestone, Queens County, New York
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